Homoerotic artist Tom of Finland honoured with racy postage stamps

Late artist Tom of Finland is set to be honoured with a series of postage stamps featuring homoerotic art.

Tom of Finland, real name Touko Laaksonen, was renowned for his homoerotic drawings and their influence on pop culture and fashion.

A series of stamps featuring his work will be released in September 2014 by the Finnish postal service, Itella Posti Oy.

(Picture: Itella Posti Oy)

Itella said of the stamps: ‘His emphatically masculine homoerotic drawings have attained iconic status in their genre and had an influence on, for instance, pop culture and fashion. In his works, Tom of Finland utilized the self-irony and humor typical of subcultures…

‘The drawings on the stamp sheet represent strong and confident male figures typical of their designer.’

(Picture: Itella Posti Oy)

Timo Berry added: ‘The sheet portrays a sensual life force and being proud of oneself. There is never too much of that in this northern country.’